Scroll Brake — App Blocker
Stop doomscrolling with conscious math friction on iOS
Details
- External ID
- 1257838
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Scroll Brake is a lightweight (~4MB) iOS app that replaces mindless scrolling with healthy mental friction. Standard limits fail because tapping 'Ignore' is pure muscle memory. Instead of an easy bypass, Scroll Brake locks distracting apps behind quick math puzzles, cooling impulsive dopamine cravings in 10 seconds. Built natively on Apple's Screen Time API with zero battery drain and 100% on-device privacy. Up to 3 rules are completely free forever, with no ads, trackers, or subscriptions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ios app blocker with math puzzles for doomscroll prevention
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Apple provides official Screen Time APIs (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity) that support blocking shields and custom action shields where a math puzzle view can be displayed before unblocking.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- ScrollLess · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- ShieldBrain Reels Counter App · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Dunya Pause · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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